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Bayside Woodturners and Woodcrafters Club banking deta i ls : BSB: 06 4142 Account: 0090 3158 Patron Joan Pease MP Member for L ytton President Ian Want 33966933 Gloria1d@bigpond.com Vice-president Bill Darville 3851 1075 bill.darvill1@gmail.com

Secretary Maurice Page 3843 3628 admin@baysidewoodturners.com Treasurer Murray Porteous 3286 7292 mtjrport@bigpond.net.au Committee Clara Adams 3396 3162 Steve Schuhmacher 3822 5227 Alan Beswick 3393 3437 Charles Bate 3396 7335 Beryl Diamond 3822 8746 Alby Shand 33969827 David Praeger

Bill Sedgwick

3901 1065 33968732

Ian Hodgson Dave Marsden

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Newsletter April 2018

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President’s Report As I put pen to paper, we enter another exciting month with events for everyone, Including the wood shows which come around this time of the year. Having to take the opportunity to engage myself with the different branches of our club, I marvel at the work that has been turned out. At the moment the machinery group is busy making an Appalachian Dulcimer, under the watchful eyes of David Praeger. We should see some interesting instruments in the near future. Until next month, Ian Want

Lookin’ Up Yer Dates April/May – Basic Woodturning Course will be held – further information to follow regarding this. 5th & 6th May – Malaney Show Saturday 28th April - Mother’s Day Sale Date to be Advised - Cooroy inter-club competition – All groups of the club are expected to contribute a sample of their best work !0th May – Bunnings family Day from 6- 9pm – Club has been invited to have a stall of display of our work. 8th to 10th June – Q-Turn hosted by Ipswich Crafts Club will be held at The Outlook Conference & Training Facility Boonah – cost $220 for the weekend includes 7 meals, morning & afternoon and motel style accommodation – For further information visit https://ipswichwoodcraftsclub.com/q-turn-2018/ Sunday 15th July – Bunnings Sausage Sizzle 21st July – Christmas in July 28th & 29th July – Mt Gravatt Show 7th to 9th September – Red Fest 12th to 14th October – Ipswich Assembly Tuesday 6th November – Melbourne Cup 24th & 25th November - Art in Wood 15th December –Christmas Party Sunday 23rd December – Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

SPECIAL EXTERNAL EVENTS for those who wish to incorporate Wood working events with holidays these

following shows may be of interest.

22nd

– 24th

June - The 2018 Australian Woodturning Exhibition will take place at the Kingston City Hall, 985

Nepean Highway Moorabbin. . Entry forms will be available shortly on their website: http://awtex.com.au/

17th

– 21st

October - Wood Dust -the Australian International Timber and Woodworking Festival, will be held at

Bungendore & Queanbeyan, NSW. They promise a rich program that includes talks and master-classes by leading

Australian and international craftspeople, an exhibition of fine woodwork at the Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, a

tool market place featuring visiting tool makers from around the globe and of course some country hospitality.

More information found on their website: https://www.wooddustaustralia.com/

Check the Council of Woodwork Club’s website for further interesting information:

https://www.councilwoodworkclubs.org/

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Demonstrations Demos will generally be scheduled for the first Saturday of the month at this stage Remember: You can get DVD copies of all demos for $2 a copy - see Ken Groves.

Regular Meetings Wednesday Club show and

tell and meeting

10am to 12 noon Shed open from 9am

Sharing of wit and wisdom, knowledge and experience, techniques and tips All contributions welcome.

3rd Wednesday of Month

Breakfast & Club competition

Novice & Open section

No show and tell contribution today. Competition Entries to be benched before 9:30.

Tuition - Free to Members Monday evening PYROGRAPHY

Instruction and self paced projects 7 pm till 9 pm

1st Monday of every month

ADVANCED WOOD TURNING group 8am

Tues evening every week and 1st Monday of month

CARVING From beginner to advanced

6 pm till 9 pm 9am – 5 pm

Wednesday arvo every week

TURNING INSTRUCTION Teachers / mentors for all skill levels

12:30 till 3 pm

2nd Saturday MACHINERY GROUP Hands on use of all workshop equipment in making projects

8:30 till 12:00

Thursday after the second Saturday Sometimes 2nd sometimes 3rd

MACHINERY GROUP Hands on use of all workshop equipment in making projects

8:30 till 12:00

Thursday every week CLOCK MAKING GROUP 2 pm till 4 pm

3rd Saturday and after Wednesday meeting held 1st week in month

SCROLLSAW & INTARSIA Come and learn the tips and tricks

8:30 till 12:00 12 till 3.00 pm

Club Equipment & Training STOP BLOCKS - Maurie has gone to the trouble of making stop blocks for the drop saws in the club. These blocks are painted bright red with words ‘’Stop Blocks, do not throw out’’ clearly visible on them. They are used by clamping them to the saws so an exact length of wood can be cut numerous times by sliding the timber along till it meets the block. It makes repetitive cutting faster and more accurate. If you see anyone putting these sacred blocks in the bin you are to retrieve the blocks and substitute their place in the bin with the perpertrator. MISSING PART OF MAGNIGYING LIGHT The club recently purchased 6 magnifying lights for the scroll saw group. Five were successfully fitted to the

tables on which the scroll saws are located. However one of the boxes containing the lights had been

opened and the clamping bracket which holds the light has been taken. This renders one of the lights

unusable and if anyone knows about this would you please contact someone in the committee or Rod G.

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SAFETY ISSUE Here is an interesting article re safety when cutting timbers courtesy of club member Graeme L CFA moves to prevent fungus infections from firewood - CFA ...

Last year Glenaladale CFA Captain Rick O’Haire encouraged his long term friend John Hine to share his

story. In June 2016 John contracted the Cryptococcal fungal infection after cutting Redgum firewood at this

farm in Woodglen. This particular fungus can generally be found in Redgum, Bluegum, and Blackwood and

probably many other timbers and soils.

A simple face mask can protect against Cryptococca.

Read the full story at this website: https://news.cfa.vic.gov.au/-/cfa-moves-to-prevent-fungus-infections-in-

firewood

REMINDERS SHARPENING OF TURNING TOOLS

Handouts on the correct use of sharpening tools were handed out and these are part of the accredited training program on how to use jigs for the correct sharpening of the tools.

These jig settings are not to be changed under any circumstances.

Steve recently conducted some instruction sessions on tool sharpening. Those who attended are reminded

that until they prove to Steve that they have the necessary abilities they ARE NOT ACCREDITED to use the

club equipment to sharpen tools. As at 4th April no one has yet approached Steve for accreditation.

WOOD TURNING CHISELS

All the club woodturning chisels are clearly branded on the handles with blue and yellow paint. A complete

set of chisels has been removed from the club premises with one having been taken from each rack. The

removal of these chisels without the club’s consent can only be described as theft and they must be

returned to the club. If you have mistakenly taken them, return them immediately!!!

Charlie B reports that wood is being removed from the wood shed and payment has not been made into the club. Payment should be made by writing your name and the amount on the list on the notice board and then place monies in the box near the notice. The club goes to great deal of time and effort to acquire and process the timber and at some expense to individual members who supply vehicles and the use of their chain saws to mill the timber. The prices are marked on the wood and are probably the cheapest in South East Queensland.

So be fair to all in the club and pay for what you take.

WOOD SUPPLIED BY THE CLUB

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LINISHER

Club members are again reminded that the linisher is for SANDING ONLY and not to be used as a

thicknesser. If you want to reduce the thickness of timber is not the way to go as it wears out the belts

unnecessarily. You are also reminded when using the linisher make sure that no glue has seeped out of any

joins as again this will ruin the belts. Make sure all the glue has been removed prior to sanding.

Articles of Interest WEEKLY GROUP SHOW & TELL

The items on display on Wednesdays are usually brought in by the same very small group of club members

and it is not a good representation of work undertaken by others. We need more items to be submitted, be

they failures or fabulous and only by seeing other people’s work we can learn from their mistakes or

successes. This is a valuable resource whereby we can all learn. There are many members who buy wood

from the club but never display their final efforts.

So get on board and bring in your works of art and share your knowledge.

SATURDAY 28th April

AT THE CLUBHOUSE

15 HARMAN STREET MANLY

Woodturned Bowls Jewellery Boxes Pens

Intarsia Pieces Pyrography

All Manner of Hand-crafted wooden items. Sales and Demonstrations all day

9am till 3pm

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Bayside Woodturners & Woodcrafters Club with

Wynnum Redlands Budgerigar Society

Xmas Christmas in July

Wynnum Manly Workers Club 35 Bognor St Tingalpa

Saturday 21st July 6.30 pm

$30 each

Free soft drinks: buy your own hard stuff

This has been a great night out in past years so don’t miss out get your tickets early, entry by prepaid ticket only. Dinner will be buffet style and if it follows past performances by this caterer it will be well worth the money. If everyone coming can bring a gift for the raffle there should be a fair chance that all attending should win something, the proceeds will go towards the cost of the free drinks for the evening. This night out will depend on numbers so please contact Derek, Col Brown or Bill as soon as you can with numbers attending and we need your cash by Wednesday the 18th July

You can call Bill on 33968732

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BASIC WOOD TURNING COURSE

The next Basic Woodturning Course (for experienced as well as new woodturners) will commence on Tuesday 24th April at 9 am to Noon. The list for those Members who wish to do the 5 week course will be up on the Notice Board next Wednesday. Dates are 24th April, 1st – 8th – 15th & 22nd May and the cost is $5 per day to be paid to Bruce or Wally. We have 5 Members wanting to do the course already on the sheet so we need a further 3 or 4 to complete the group. This Course will also include the Use of Sharpening Equipment as a required skill for wood turning. On Course completion, competency sign off will be for Wood Lathe and later the Sharpening (with Steve) Woodturning Basics (5 week Course for All Turners) Week 1 - Lessons 1 (Duration 3 hour) Lathe - Features - Speed and Safety

Lathe Tools – Shaping and Sharpening

Week 2 - Lesson 2 (Duration 3 hour) Timber Selection – grain – Spindle Vs Faceplate

Chucking, Types, Tommy Bars / Keys / Screw Chucks

Setting the Lathe & mounting timber work piece.

Roughing down, Smoothing

Week 3 - Lesson 3 (Duration 3 hour) Spindle Turning

Coves and Beads

Sanding and Finishing

Week 4 & 5 - Lesson 4 & 5 (Duration 3 hour each week) Projects

o Handle for Gouge - Scuttles

o Honey Dipper - Spinning tippy top

o Goblet and Finials - Weed Pots

o Your choice of spindle project

Ground Rules

Cannot join a group mid-course

If you miss a lesson no plans for catch up

If lesson ends early, move onto projects.

Provide you own sand paper and finishes.

Course costs - $5 / lesson

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SCROLL SAW GROUP

The Club has recently acquired two new scroll saws to

bring our number up to six. The club has also purchased

magnifying lights for each machine to make the fine

work a little easier. There are about twelve scrollers in

the club of which 6 to 8 attend our classes on the 3rd

Saturday of each month. The group has a set a project

to do from time to time to develop their skills one step

at a time.

The main types of scroll saw work could be catagorised as fret work, intarsia, models, toys and trinket boxes which may include fret work and intarsia. Some of the more experienced scrollers, such as Dave, Col and Ken specialise in their own particular field and some of their work appears regularly in our newsletters e.g. the violin (to the left) made by Col and the fret work which won this month’s competition entered by Dave (pictured above right).

The bonus of scroll sawing is that you don’t need a lot of timber to create something beautiful as quite often they can be made from small leftovers and off-cuts. The scroll saw group has all levels, from beginners to the ‘’Masters’’.

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So feel free to come along and see what the group makes.

Turning a Grin A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, "I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir." The driver says, "Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating." Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: "Now don't be silly dear, you know that this car doesn't have cruise control." As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, "Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?" The wife smiles demurely and says, "You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did." As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, "Darn it, woman, can't you keep your mouth shut?" T he officer frowns and says, "And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine." The driver says, "Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket." The wife says, "Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you're driving." And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, "WHY DON'T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??" The officer looks over at the woman and asks, "Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?" (I love this part....) "Only when he's been drinking"

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Photo Gallery of only a small portion of the wonderful work of club members Check out the club website and facebook for detailed pictures of these and many more items.

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Bowl made by

Jess &

enhanced with

beautiful Paua

shells

These 2 clocks

were made by

John P. from

126 year old

fence posts

donated to him

by Laurie.

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Thank you to the Sponsors and Supporters of our Club

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Tools For Wood

398 Wondall Road Manly West

Our favourite Tree Lopper

Please consider him for any future work and

recommend him to friends

April club

comp

winning

entry, which

shows

magnificent

scroll saw

work, was

entered by

Dave

Winning entry April 2018